People ask me how me and my girlfriend, Vanessa, met. I tell them we met on a crowded bus, but it isn't true. We met under extraordinary conditions, but it's a longish story so I wrote it down.


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I clambered out of the car and breathed deep in the country air. I was so glad to get out of that car. I had a major cramp in my right foot, so I decided to walk it off. I headed down to the beach and sat on the sand with my toes in the water. I decided to go to the quarry, a powder white quarry on top of the cliff that towered over the far side of the beach. As I walked along the beach I came across a tennis ball. I picked it up and threw it up in the air a few times. As I got closer to the quarry my throws became harder and higher. By the time I had got there I was pelting it at the clouds as hard as I could. I was walking backwards to catch the highest one yet when it happened.

My foot slipped and my eyes flashed. I screamed as I fell down a dank hole and landed sprawling on dirt. Pain was shooting through my leg where it hit the hard ground.

"Uh.. are you okay?"
I instantly forgot about my leg and my eyes darted everywhere. A voice. I distinctly heard a voice.
A girl caught my eyes, leaning on the wall. A completely naked blonde girl about my age. She seemed to have just realised she was naked and hastily covered herself.
"Oh wow.... my leg..." I mumbled.
She walked to me and dropped down. She pulled up my trouser legs. "Where does it hurt?", she asked.
"Just my leg in general".
"Let's have a look then".
She examined my leg and eventually said "It's fine, you just landed on it."
As we chattered on through the infinite black, the world died around us. We forgot about how we were trapped, how worried her parents and Nan and Pop would be at the moment, if the miners will ever return. We forgot all of it. We ploughed through the night together, completely oblivious to the creatures that dwell outside, completely oblivious to the dirt that got in between our toes and in our hair, completely oblivious.

It was about the time she was talking about the time she was swimming with dolphins in SeaWorld that I started to feel sleepy and I closed my eyes. "Oi." Vanessa said, who couldn't help smiling. "You still with us, Sparky?"
"Nuh?" I mumbled groggily, opening my eyes. "Sorry, tired. Long trip." I shook my self awake and she rolled her eyes.

I moved closer and sat next to her. "You were saying?". She finished her story and asked me if I had ever been to Queensland. This started another long string of stories about Queensland, which hotels we went to, which rides we went on, how we felt when we were going down the Mach 5. We talked for hours on end, but it seemed like a surprisingly short time Vanessa said, "Shouldn't we at least try to get some sleep?" I nodded and we lay down together, our heads underneath the hole. I stared up at the inky black sky. It was still the same. This damp cold place was like a whole new world, yet the pitch black roof that we call a sky was exactly the same it'd always be. We were both awake for ages but we didn't say a single word, we just looked upwards at the night and thought, well, we might be stuck down a hole, we might be a pretty long away from civilization, we might be lying on a slightly damp dirt floor but it's not that bad, as long as I have a friend lying next to me.

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The stars will still there, but the blackness that draped this side of the world had disappeared and replaced by a yellowish greenish light. I had long since lost track of time but it must've been at least 4:30AM. Fourteen hours. Fourteen hours ago I had clambered out of that car and walked up to the quarry. Fourteen hours I had been down this hole with this Vanessa. Fourteen hours well spent. Vanessa snored next to me, she had fallen asleep yonks ago but I hadn't gotten a single wink of sleep the whole night. I was hardly tired at all. I looked at Vanessa again. She was shivering in her sleep. If only she had known how cold I was, wearing nothing but my underwear. Still, even though she was wearing my jeans, my shirt and my jumper, she must of been freezing. I had to warm her up. It was a little uncomfortable but I didn't want her to catch pneumonia. I laid behind her and put my arms around her stomach. I hoped I wasn't making her even more cold but I supposed she'd warm up soon enough. Vanessa rolled over and put her head under my chin. Despite how much I was shivering, I couldn't help smiling into her hair. Even though she was asleep and unaware of what I was doing, she appreciated it.

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"Grazer? Grazer, are you awake?"

My eyes snapped open. Yes, I'm awake. I didn't know if I'd gotten any sleep. I don't think so. I opened my eyes and stood up. Vanessa was naked again.

"Yeah, I'm awake. Morning."
"Morning", she replied. Then she smiled. "Thanks for keeping me warm. I... thank you."
She knew I was cuddling her during the night? Crap. She probably thought I was coming onto her. I failed at keeping cool. "Oh. Err... huh. Sorry...about.. you were shivering.... and, uh, yeah--" "It's okay. I would've freezed to death. I was talking about the clothes." She pointed to the heap of clothes at my foot.
"Oh! That was no problem at all!" I told her. I put the shirt and the jumper on, but I gave her the jeans. "You need these more than I do. I have underwear." I said.
She thanked me and put on the jeans. She sat down on a rock on the far side of the cavern. "Boy, I'm hungry. When are those miners going to get here? I don't want to start drinking urine." I laughed. It was good to hear her voice again after the hours of silence I had spent staring to the heavens.

It wasn't long after that the miners came. I heard them chatting about a guy called Seltzer and how he got caught drunk driving. I started shouting. "Oi! Help!". I saw two heads appear, looking down at us. "What the...? What are kids doing down there?", one said in a deep voice. Another voice came from behind the deep voiced guy, "What? Kids down there?". I said "We fell down last night. Get us out of here!". The miners got out their equipment and one of them, the guy with a deep voice, slid down a rope and offered it to me. I nodded my head at Vanessa. "Take her". She was taken and then I was. The first thing I saw when I reached the top was Vanessa putting on the clothes she had taken off all those hours ago. I put on the ones she had took off just then and turned around to see all the miners staring at us. We thanked them and walked back along the beach.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhh....." Vanessa ahhed. "Fresh air and freedom. My parents will be worried sick about me". "My nan and pop will be too" I told her. We got to the gravel road.
"Where's your grandparent's house?" she asked. I pointed to the right. "Oh." She said, and pointed to the left. "Mine are up this way. I'll see you later then." I nodded.
She turned and hugged me and kissed my cheek. "Thank you so much for... everything. I'll see you tomorrow?"
I smiled and touched my cheek where she'd kissed me. "Yeah. Midday?"
"At the beach. We can talk about... things."
I grinned at her, said "Sure." and walked back to the shack along the gravel road.


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Constructive compliments and critising would be good.

~Magic My Mom

Sounds interesting; but it's too confusing. The beginning part is the part that everybody reads; if it's terrible or incomplete, people will just leave.

Well I haven't done the beginning 'cause it's a little boring.

I take it you didn't read all of it?

aaaw...thats romantic

aaaw...thank you